Genomic analysis of the multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii strain MDR-ZJ06 widely spread in China.

abstract：:The in vitro and in vivo activities of modithromycin, a novel bicyclolide, against Legionella pneumophila were compared with those of telithromycin, clarithromycin, azithromycin, and levofloxacin. All the test agents decreased the intracellular growth of viable L. pneumophila bacteria over 96 h of incubation in both t...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Sato T,Tateda K,Kimura S,Ishii Y,Yamaguchi K

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The survival of three bacterial species and Candida albicans was studied on SPI-ARGENT II. The immediate recovery from silver-impregnated polymer and control polymer (1 cm2) was approximately 10(6) to 10(7) microorganisms. After incubation (37 degreesC) and neutralization of silver with horse serum (5%), surviving org...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Kampf G,Dietze B,Grosse-Siestrup C,Wendt C,Martiny H

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptomycin, the first antibiotic used in tuberculosis control programs, perturbs protein synthesis at the ribosome level. It is shown here that streptomycin resistance in some clinical isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis is associated either with missense mutations in the rpsL gene, which encodes ribosomal protei...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Honoré N,Cole ST

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vitro susceptibilities of 22 penicillinase-producing and 32 non-penicillinase-producing strains of Neisseria gonorrhoeae to 13 antimicrobial agents, including the new semisynthetic penicillins and cephalosporins, are reported. Ceftriaxone, ceftazidime, and cefotaxime were the most active agents tested; none of ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Coovadia YM,Ramsaroop U

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ethambutol (EMB) plays a pivotal role in the chemotherapy of drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB), including multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB). Resistance to EMB is considered to be caused by mutations in the embCAB operon (embC, embA, and embB). In this study, we analyzed the embCAB mutations among 139 MDR-TB iso...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Zhao LL,Sun Q,Liu HC,Wu XC,Xiao TY,Zhao XQ,Li GL,Jiang Y,Zeng CY,Wan KL

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High-performance liquid chromatography was used to determine the penetration of 19 antimicrobial agents into human polymorphonuclear leukocytes. The ratios of the intracellular concentration to the extracellular concentration of ampicillin, piperacillin, cefazolin, ceftizoxime, cefpimizole, and ceftazidime were all le...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Koga H

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have conducted experiments to determine if one daily injection of netilmicin (NET) would be synergistic with the broad-spectrum cephalosporin ceftriaxone (CRO) in the treatment of experimentally induced endocarditis. Rats with catheter-induced aortic vegetations were infected intravenously with 3 x 10(7) CFU of a b...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Francioli PB,Glauser MP

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two new antifungal triazoles, BAY n7133 and ICI 153,066, were compared with ketoconazole in treatment of mice challenged intraperitoneally with Cryptococcus neoformans. At high challenge doses, thymus-containing normal mice had prolonged survival after treatment with BAY n7133. Athymic mice, which have severely defici...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Graybill JR,Kaster SR,Drutz DJ

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Toxoplasma gondii is a cosmopolitan protozoan parasite which affects approximately 30% of the population worldwide. The drugs currently used against toxoplasmosis are few in number and show several limitations, such as drug intolerance, poor bioavailability, or drug resistance mechanism developed by the parasite. Thus...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Spalenka J,Escotte-Binet S,Bakiri A,Hubert J,Renault JH,Velard F,Duchateau S,Aubert D,Huguenin A,Villena I

更新日期：2018-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the minimum exposure times of prazicuantel (PZQ) and albendazole sulfoxide (ABZSO) required for their activities against Taenia cysts in vitro as well as the 50 and 99% effective concentrations. The results showed that although the effects of both drugs are time and concentration dependent, ABZSO acts ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Palomares F,Palencia G,Pérez R,González-Esquivel D,Castro N,Cook HJ

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heteroresistance is the coexistence of populations with differing nucleotides at a drug resistance locus within a sample of organisms. Although Sanger sequencing is the gold standard for sequencing, it may be less sensitive than deep sequencing for detecting fluoroquinolone heteroresistance in Mycobacterium tuberculos...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Eilertson B,Maruri F,Blackman A,Herrera M,Samuels DC,Sterling TR

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A study was performed to determine the effect of parenteral treatment with four broad-spectrum cephalosporins (cefoperazone, ceftriaxone, ceftazidime, and cefepime) on the number of aerobic gram-negative rods and on the outgrowth of Candida albicans and a multiresistant strain of Citrobacter freundii in the feces of m...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： van Ogtrop ML,Guiot HF,Mattie H,van Furth R

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Actithiazic acid and alpha-methyldethiobiotin inhibited the conversion of dethiobiotin to biotin resting-cell suspensions of Escherichia coli. The concentrations which effected 50% inhibition were 0.45 and 1.1 microM for actithiazic acid and alpha-methyldethiobiotin, respectively. Cells grown in low concentrations of ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Eisenberg MA,Hsiung SC

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To identify the polymyxin receptor molecules in the membranes of living microorganisms, fusion of intact Acholeplasma laidlawii B with lipid vesicles was investigated according to the procedure of Grant and McConnell (1973). The naturally polymyxin-resistant A. laidlawii B was treated with phospholipid vesicles prepar...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Teuber M,Bader J

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We undertook a prospective, randomized comparison of oral ciprofloxacin with standard parenteral therapies for the treatment of biopsy-proven osteomyelitis caused by susceptible organisms. Following surgical debridement, the ciprofloxacin patients received 750 mg twice a day, and the other patients received a broad-sp...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Gentry LO,Rodriguez GG

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eight unrelated clinical Acinetobacter baumannii isolates resistant to all commonly used antibiotics were subjected to three-dimensional checkerboard microtiter plate dilution and time-kill studies at one-fourth of their MICs of polymyxin B, imipenem, and rifampin. Synergy was demonstrated with combinations of polymyx...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Yoon J,Urban C,Terzian C,Mariano N,Rahal JJ

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The phenotype of Klebsiella pneumoniae HEL-1 indicates a plasmidic cephamycinase gene (blaCMY-2). Its sequence shows one open reading frame coding for a protein of 381 amino acids. CMY-2 is classified as class C beta-lactamase that is closely related to the plasmidic enzymes BIL-1 and LAT-1 and the chromosomal AmpC of...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Bauernfeind A,Stemplinger I,Jungwirth R,Giamarellou H

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the DNA sequence variation of van genes of 34 isolates of Enterococcus spp. The isolates containing the vanB gene exhibited between 0 and 41 base pair changes per 801 bp studied when the vanB sequences were compared to that of the reference strain Enterococcus faecalis V583. The isolates carrying the vanC-2...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Patel R,Uhl JR,Kohner P,Hopkins MK,Steckelberg JM,Kline B,Cockerill FR 3rd

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To date, the majority of pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic (PK/PD) discussions have focused on PK/PD relationships evaluated at steady-state drug concentrations. However, a concern with reliance upon steady-state drug concentrations is that it ignores events occurring while the pathogen is exposed to intermittent subopt...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Martinez MN,Papich MG,Drusano GL

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The responses of 20 ampicillin-susceptible Haemophilus influenzae type b clinical isolates to the bactericidal action of ampicillin were studied by using a modified agar dilution plate count method. A well-defined paradoxical effect was observed in each of the 24-h killing curve patterns for 19 of the 20 isolates, the...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Woolfrey BF,Gresser-Burns ME,Lally RT

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Generation of pharmacodynamic relationships in the clinical arena requires estimation of pharmacokinetic parameter values for individual patients. When the target population is severely ill, the ability to obtain traditional intensive blood sampling schedules is curtailed. Population modeling guided by optimal samplin...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Tam VH,Preston SL,Drusano GL

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vitro activities of sparfloxacin, temafloxacin, ciprofloxacin, ofloxacin, clarithromycin, erythromycin, tetracycline, cephalothin, penicillin G, and amoxicillin-clavulanic acid against 173 recent clinical bite wound isolates were determined by agar dilution. Sparfloxacin was active against all strains (MIC for ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Goldstein EJ,Citron DM

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Combinations of caspofungin and posaconazole were evaluated by fractional inhibitory concentration index against 119 Candida glabrata isolates. Synergy was seen in 18% of all isolates and in 4% of fluconazole-resistant isolates at 48 h without evidence of antagonism. This antifungal combination may have utility agains...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Oliveira ER,Fothergill AW,Kirkpatrick WR,Coco BJ,Patterson TF,Redding SW

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Letermovir, GW275175X (a benzimidazole), and tomeglovir (Bay38-4766) are chemically unrelated human cytomegalovirus (CMV) terminase complex inhibitors that have been tested in human subjects. UL56 gene mutations are the dominant pathway of letermovir resistance, while UL89 and UL56 mutations are known to confer benzim...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Chou S

更新日期：2017-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The activities of niridazole and metronidazole were compared by an agar dilution method against 40 strains of Campylobacter fetus subsp. jejuni of human origin. Niridazole had a markedly higher activity than metronidazole. ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Freydière AM,Gille Y,Tigaud S,Vincent P

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:beta-Lactam antibiotics are extremely effective in disrupting the synthesis of the bacterial cell wall in both gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria. However, they are ineffective against Mycobacterium tuberculosis, due to the production of a beta-lactamase enzyme encoded on the chromosome of M. tuberculosis that d...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Wang F,Cassidy C,Sacchettini JC

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The behavioral and convulsant effects of cefazolin, a beta-lactam derivative, were studied after intraperitoneal administration to DBA/2 mice, a strain genetically susceptible to sound-induced seizures, and Swiss mice. DBA/2 mice were more susceptible to seizures induced by cefazolin than were Swiss mice. The proconvu...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： De Sarro A,Zappalá M,Chimirri A,Grasso S,De Sarro GB

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vitro interactions of ciprofloxacin with imipenem and amikacin were evaluated by the killing-curve technique against 26 Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains resistant to amikacin and resistant or moderately susceptible to ciprofloxacin and imipenem. Imipenem enhanced killing by ciprofloxacin in tests with 11 strains, whe...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Giamarellou H,Petrikkos G

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:beta-L-2',3'-Dideoxy-5-fluorocytidine (beta-L-FddC), a novel cytidine analog with an unnatural beta-L sugar configuration, has been demonstrated by our group and others to exhibit highly selective in vitro activity against human immunodeficiency virus types 1 and 2 and hepatitis B virus. This encouraging in vitro anti...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Martin LT,Cretton-Scott E,Schinazi RF,Zhou XJ,McClure HM,Mathe C,Gosselin G,Imbach JL,Sommadossi JP

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcus epidermidis is one of the most frequent causes of device-associated infections, because it is known to cause biofilms that grow on catheters or other surgical implants. The persistent increasing resistance of S. epidermidis and other coagulase-negative staphylococci (CoNS) has driven the need for newer ...

journal_title：Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors： Hou Z,Da F,Liu B,Xue X,Xu X,Zhou Y,Li M,Li Z,Ma X,Meng J,Jia M,Wang Y,Luo X

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00